FC-2 laptop question

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 29 May 2004, Robert Spangler wrote:

> On Fri May 28 2004 07:26, Cam wrote:
>
>> > I installed it on my Dell Latitude CPx J750GT, and I love it. One thing
>> > though - it appears that none of my function keys work. I know that X
>> > thinks I have a 101-key keyboard - which is wrong - I have an 87-key
>> > keyboard. I don't know if that's related to the problem or not though.
>> >
>> > I'd really like to get things like the suspend key, and the
>> > brightness/contrast keys working.
>>
>>  Congratulations - I've been searching for laptop successes on FC2 and
>>  found few.
>
> I installed FC2 on my IBM Thinkpad 600x last night and the function keys are
> working here without having to fiddle with anything.

Thats because the kernel detects the bios is too old - and loads APM
(not ACPI). And Fn-F4 suspend and other functions work with APM
without any extra configuration.

Satish